Adelger Wach

Adelger Wach (13 May 1877-29 June 1919) was a German socialist leader who was one of the leaders of the Spartacus League during the German Revolution.

Biography
Adelger Wach was born on 13 May 1877 in Munich, German Empire to a lower-class Catholic family, and he became a schoolteacher. Wach taught philosophy at the University of Munich, and he led strikes against the government in response to its unfair treatment of teachers during the economic crisis that accompanied World War I. Wach joined the socialist Spartacus League and took part in the 1918 German Revolution against Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, fighting against the Reichswehr as a leader of the communist rebels. On 29 June 1919, he was killed in battle at the Battle of Egenhofen against the Reichswehr.